426 Annals of the South African Museum. 



4. B. annectens, Harv. iu Harv. et Send. Fl. Cap. iii. 509. 

 Bushmanland: Near outspan about 8 miles south-west of Bitter- 



fontein, near abandoned cultivation, 3864. 



Great Namaqualand : Saltflats between 25 km. north of Warmbad 

 and next outspan, 4100. Without locality, 3670. 



Distribution. — Western districts. 



5. B. viscosa. 



Stobaea viscosa, DC. Prodr. vi. 517; Harv. in Harv. et Sond. Fl. 

 Cap. iii. 497. 



Little Namaqualand : Edge of cornlands, Brakdam, 5595. 



Cape: Clanwilliam ; sandbanks in river-bed below Kradouw Krantz, 

 bush 5 ft. high, 5375. 



Distribution. — Only once previously collected by Drege in the 

 Blaauberg, Clanwilliam. 



6. B. oppositifolia. 



Stobaea opjpositifolia, DC. Prodr. vi. 517; Harv. in Harv. et Sond. 

 Fl. Cap. iii. 497. 



Khamiesberg : Twee Eivieren, hills east of hamlet, 6597. 



Little Namaqualand : Alewyns Fontein, foot of kopje, among 

 boulders, fls. yellow, 3315. 



Distribution. — Western districts. 



7. Berkheya Schinzii, 0. Hoffm., MSS. 



Cape: Roadside between Hottentot's Kloof and Karoo Poort, 4S24. 

 Upper Region : Lower slopes of Hantam Berg between Calvinia 

 and Holle River, 3965. 



Distribution. — Western districts. 



8. Berkheya excelsa, Hutchinson, sp. nov. (fig. 16) ; affinis B. 

 onobromoidei (DC), sed foliis caulinis angustioribus glabris, foliis 

 bracteatis lanceolatis (nee late ovatis),involucri bracteis angustioribus 

 differt. 



Planta excelsa, usque ad 2 m. alta ; caulis inferne circiter 1 cm. 

 crassus, dense sulcatus, internodiis 4-5 cm. longis, glaber. Folia 

 caulina ambitu linearia, 7-15 cm. longa, 3-4 cm. lata, coriacea, dense 

 crasse spinoso-lobata, spinis 1 cm. longis, utrinque glabra, lobulis 

 spinulosis, spinulis 2 mm. longis; costa basi latissima, 5 mm. lata, 

 supra plana, infra paulum elevata. Capihda discoidea, paniculata, 

 breviter pedunculata, circiter 3 cm. expansa ; pedunculus 1-5-2 cm. 

 longus, 1-5 mm. crassus. Involucri bracteae circiter 5-seriatae, lanceo- 

 latae, spinoso-acuminatae, usque ad 15 cm. longae, spinuloso marginatae, 



